We're losing our Larches

We have numerous plantations on the island but currently our Larches are under threat, it's sad to see so many having to be destroyed.

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle...ees-felled-in-bid-to-tackle-disease-1-6899249

 

Pity, not sure where we are heading with tree diseases.
I'm also not too sure on the way they combat them, its a bit like the approach to foot and mouth some years ago.

Destroy everything in sight.

But then, what do I know?

In "global world" we have to accept that these things will happen.
I just hope nature has the answer, because I dont think people do.

 

Pete our Forestry Department are only felling the diseased trees not others on the same plantations that are disease free. However, they are felling the trees and leaving them where they lie for several weeks before they are taken away and destroyed. In my mind that's not the way to go about combatting it.

 

Sheal, I know it might seem like a good idea to cut everything down, one or two in the whole plantation might just be resistant.
Or maybe that is where it all went wrong?
and all the trees are genetically very similar.

Tree growing in the same way as crop growing might just be the cause, difference being we spray crops against disease.